Andrew Clinch

Andrew Clinch

Birth name	Andrew Daniel Clinch
Date of birth	28 November 1867
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Date of death	1 February 1937
Place of death	Dublin, Ireland
School	Belvedere College
University	Trinity College Dublin
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) Dublin University () – Wanderers () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1892-1897 Ireland 10 (0) 1896 British Lions 4 (0)

Andrew Daniel Clinch MD JP (28 November 1867 – 1 February 1937), was an Irish rugby union forward who played club rugby for Dublin University and international rugby for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.

Biography

Educated at Belvedere College S.J. Andrew Daniel (Coo) Clinch represented Leinster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions in a distinguished playing career and later became president of the Irish Rugby Football Union. He was a member of the squad on the 1896 British Lions tour to South Africa.

His son, Jammie Clinch, also played rugby for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.

His grandfather James Clinch was a jeweler and made Claddagh Rings in Galway in the early 1800s

His great-grandson Peter Clinch is an Irish academic and economist, who has served as Chairperson of Science Foundation Ireland.

His great-great-granddaughter Catherine Clinch stars in the Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin